EU TO REQUIRE DUE DILIGENCE CHECKS FOR CONFLICT MINERALS
March 1st, 2017
The European Union (EU) is to require companies importing certain minerals to carry out ‘due diligence’ checks on their suppliers to ensure they are not funding conflict or human rights violations, under a draft regulation approved in the European Parliament in Strasbourg today (March 16). The ‘conflict minerals’ regulation will require all but the smallest EU importers, smelters and refiners of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold as well as their ores to carry out the checks when sourcing from conflict and high risk areas, such as the Democratic Republic ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.